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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"landscape use"”.
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Stone age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape
This thesis investigates changing patterns of landscape use throughout the Earlier (ESA), Middle (MSA) and Later Stone Ages (LSA) in the Olifants River Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa. Stone Age surface assemblages are all too often neglected in favour of stratified, datable cave …
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The movement and landscape use of Blue Cranes in the Western Cape
… Yet, little is known about how this population uses the agricultural landscape and their movements. Thirteen Blue Cranes were fitted with trackers to collect Global Position System data and tracked for 3 – 18 months in the Overberg region of the Western Cape. With the provided spatial-temporal …
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An intersection of climate, history and landscape use: 3000 years of central Italian environmental change
… independent reconstructions of climate and landscape change, as well as a thorough local historical narrative. Understanding the role climate and humans have played on shaping landscape is key to interpreting history and understanding the ecological trajectory of a region. Here I present a …
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Landscapes of the apes: modelling landscape use of chimpanzees and early hominins across an environmental gradient.
… the flexibility of primates to adapt to changing landscapes is important. Landscape-scale studies of primate habitat use are, however, scant. Predictive models can provide important tools in investigating primate landscape use. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) face habitat loss throughout their …
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Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa
… dissertation aims to establish the pattern of landscape use for past humans occupying the Tankwa Karoo, identifying adaptations to the marginal environment in terms of lithic technology, raw material use and provisioning behaviour. The 100-km-long study area encompasses west-to-east transitions …
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Paleoindian Occupations in the Great Basin: A Comparative Study of Lithic Technological Organization, Mobility, and Landscape Use from Jakes Valley, Nevada
… of intensive technological studies that focused on determining raw material provisioning strategies, lithic conveyance zones, and landscape use to identify mobility and settlement patterns. Lithic assemblages from 19 Paleoindian era occupations, encompassing several environmental zones …
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The spatial ecology of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in the Cape Peninusula, South Africa: towards improved management and conservation strategies
… conflict. However, no data on baboon landscape use exist to verify this perception. I studied the spatial ecology of this population, identifying baboon land use patterns, determining the drivers of intrapopulation variation in spatial ecology and investigating how spatial variables …
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Battle Mound: Exploring Space, Place, and History of a Red River Caddo Community in Southwest Arkansas
… architectural variability and how differential use areas, such as domestic or community space, can be compared to ethnographic and archaeological data concerning Caddo community structure and landscape use. The research is formulated around three research questions related to spatial …
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The Bavarian model? : modernization, environment, and landscape planning in the Bavarian nuclear power industry, 1950-1980
… energy, required a continuous negotiation of landscape planning between state officials, scientists, and ordinary citizens. While ordinary Bavarians had little input in the technical or scientific aspects of the nuclear industry, they could shape the landscape policy, by offering environmental …
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Mounds In The Landscape: A Comparative Study Of Landscape Archaeology In English-Speaking Northwest Europe And North America
Humans have been intrigued by their surrounding landscape for centuries. Sometimes intrigue has led to particular manipulations of the land by groups of people, such as the building of mounds and other monuments. Thus, the study of past landscape use is an important part in understanding our own …
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A landscape approach to the surface archaeology of the Bos River, Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape
… of this thesis is to provide an understanding of landscape use during the Stone Ages along the Bos River in the Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape. Surveys were carried out around the Bos River, with the intention of mapping out and analysing all the surface stone artefacts. Analysing at the scale of the …
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Interpretation: experience of place
… centers that attempt to reconnect people and the landscape use prescriptive interpretive methods that distract the visitor from the interpretive process. To better understand the relationship of people and the landscape, research was conducted to address the problems stated above. Two articles …
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Poetry and the Archive
… Traces of their endeavours remain on the Cornish landscape and in Cornish identity. Correspondence between the two men and Cornish mine manager Thomas Wilson (1748-1820) is held at the Cornish Records Office and is available online. Creative work began with these letters, seeking moments, words …
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Archaeological evaluation, land use and development: an application of decision analysis to current practices within local government development control processes.
… archaeological Field Evaluation techniques are used by Curatorial Archaeologists in England to assess archaeological remains prior to implementing strategies for their protection through Town and Country Planning or Scheduled Monument Consent procedures. Yet the effectiveness of these techniques …
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The palaeolithic of the Avon valley: a geoarchaeological approach to the hominin colonisation of Britain.
… about terrace formation and Pleistocene landscape evolution in the valley and the depositional context of the three main Palaeolithic sites. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of fine-grained sediments from a sequence of six different terraces is used to create a chronometric …
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The terminal pleistocene of Klipfonteinrand rock shelter in the Cederberg
This thesis focuses on Klipfonteinrand Rock Shelter in the eastern Cederberg, during the Late Pleistocene period (22.3 - 13.4 cal kyr BP), and specifically the materials analysed after the completion of excavations at the site. The study aims, firstly, to unpack changes in the composition of the …
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Cultivar, Season Extension, Fertilizer Trials of Swiss Chard and Pedagogy of Assessing Cultivars Using Technology
… the best performing cultivars for production and landscape use for east Texas and the southeast by assessing survivability and yield. There was an increase in production of 3.0 ± 0.5 g per plant per harvest under the low tunnel. The cultivar ‘Verde de Taglio’ had the best overall performance …
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A reconstruction of the mid-to late Pleistocene plant community along the southwestern coast of South Africa using phytolith evidence
… along this coast. Recently, research into landscape use by mid-Pleistocene human populations at EFT and DFT has highlighted the need for more precise palaeoenvironmental data for the region. In response to this need, I analysed plant phytoliths extracted from sediments sampled at EFT and …
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